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Good Luck England, Come on the Lionesses

 

USA certainly look a class act, the winger is giving our left back a torrid time.

 

We need to calm down. Get the defensive shape back.

USA look so good.

 

Great come back quality finish.

 

As soon as I saw the 2 step 'run up' I knew she was doomed to miss, to be brutal Steph was no better than the rest all game, poor slovenly defending was so akin to ours last season...

 

Watched it myself Onside and like you was presently surprised
However i got to thinking of the dross i watched last season and realised
i had lowered my standards

 

I can't get into it at all. Its too slow and sterile. But that's probably because I'm comparing it to the men's game rather than looking at it in its own right - Its a sport of its own. Although there seems to be a media agenda to 'force' it on the general public in the sense of putting onto a similar platform as the men's game, which I don't think it will ever reach.

 

Thought they looked like a good pressing side

 

If you watched USA slam Thailand tonight you may change your mind Idle
Although Thai weren't up to much I would put money on the Americans beating our team from last season they were technically better and had the will to win sadly lacking in our team

 

Doubt I would change my mind Steve. Not many neutrals would enjoy such a mismatch. As for the Americans beating us, no, not having that, no matter how poor we were last season, no women's team would be able to physically compete with a men's professional team

 

It’s hard to compare but I don’t think a single one of them would last 2 mins in league 2. I’d back most u15 academy sides to beat the women’s national side.

 

Argentina were a poor side and with the possession we had we should have scored more, the last 10 minutes the English girls killed the game off, but at times it was like watching some of the games under Stuart, I was shouting at the TV "get the ball played forward".

 

Haha something very similar to me happened last Friday. My female boss asked if I was watching the World Cup tonight I said no the golfs on, then she pointed out if it was the men’s World Cup that I’d watch it. So I got into the debate with her and said I would yes, but that’s because I enjoy the quality of men’s football, I wouldn’t watch a Sunday league match as it’d bore me, and the quality of women’s football is similar level without the physicality. She said so you won’t watch it because it’s women then? I said no I won’t watch it because it’s crap quality and I like watch top quality sport, even Bradford are high quality in comparison. Like you I mentioned potential alterations that could make it better and faster paced similar to what they do in sports like cricket, I pointed out they were trying to compete by the men’s rules when women biologically just don’t have the same physical stature, she said I was being sexist because apparently I don’t think women can do what men can. I do, it’s just in terms of football they can’t do it as well!

 

Equality of opportunity and Equality of outcome are very, very different things but some people can’t or won’t understand that principle.

 

Seriously?
I'm going to assume this is an autospell anomaly because the alternative is too hideous to contemplate.

 

Just because you're right, doesn't mean you're offended....?

Abbo has explained the context of his post, which I also understood – without him having to explain. Someone getting the wrong end of the stick could be understood, but it’s been explained. That should be the end of it. Its an innocent misunderstanding – but, without aiming anything at anyone, and I’m not saying it’s the case here, it seems like these days people are unwilling to let things lie and accept that they may have misunderstood – their ‘right’ to be offended and to persuade everyone else of their moral high ground. A little bug bear of mine, which probably colours my own approach.

Anyhow, not really wanting to inflame this further, so I’ll step back from this conversation at this point.